Innholdsfortegnelse for October 04, 2024 i Newsweek International

AN OVERGROWN AIRFIELD ON A small island in the Pacific, once instrumental in America’s role in ending World War II, is being reclaimed by the U.S. Air Force as it prepares for a future fight with China. The remote island of Tinian, which is less than 40 square miles, is one of three principal islands in the Northern Mariana Islands, a string of sparsely populated islets in the Western Pacific Ocean that make up the U.S.’s westernmost frontier, along with the major military hub of Guam some 100 miles to the south. Tinian was known for its strategic value during the war. Due to its proximity to Tokyo—less than 1,500 miles—it later became a staging base to launch bomber attacks on mainland Japan. The island is a similar distance to…

HorizonsSCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY + HEALTHARCHAEOLOGY REMAINS OF ONE OF THE “LAST” NEANDERthals have been discovered, with researchers saying that the find casts new light on the history of these archaic humans. The Neanderthal was unearthed at a cave known as “Grotte Mandrin” in southern France’s Rhône Valley. The 2015 find has been reported in scientific literature for the first time, in a study published in the journal Cell Genomics. The authors—led by Ludovic Slimak, a researcher with Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France—nicknamed the individual “Thorin” in homage to a character in J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1937 novel The Hobbit, a dwarf king and the last of his line. “The Thorin of Mandrin is, in turn, one of the last Neanderthals,” Slimak wrote in a piece for The Conversation. After discovering Thorin, the…

In Focus THE NEWS IN PICTURES SIDON, LEBANON Medics attend to a man who was wounded after his pager exploded in an attack on Hezbollah operatives on September 17. At 3:30 p.m., devices distributed by the militant group months ago received a message that appeared to come from leadership. What followed was the simultaneous detonation of hundreds of pagers. The attack injured over 2,700 and killed at least 12. A day later, explosions in Hezbollah walkie-talkies killed at least 20 and wounded 450. Israel neither claimed nor denied responsibility, but moved troops to its northern border with Lebanon.…

THE VACANT BUILDINGS AND ABANDONED works of the old steel mill in Midland, Pennsylvania, speak to the Ohio Valley town’s industrial past. Crucible Steel employed thousands here for nearly a century, driving the local economy before it shuttered in the industry’s downturn decades ago, leaving yet another rust belt artifact behind. But Mawson Infrastructure Group CEO Rahul Mewawalla sees something else in the industrial waste: energy for a data center to make this small town just east of the Ohio state line part of the AI revolution. “The underlying bones of the power infrastructure are there,” Mewawalla told Newsweek. Old industrial sites like the Midland steelworks used massive amounts of electricity, and the high-power connections were still in place when the mill closed. Mawson now has some 60 modular tractor-trailer-sized…

Periscope NEWS, OPINION + ANALYSIS POLITICS soaring home prices across the u.s. have strained affordability, squeezing many aspiring buyers out of the market and pushing both Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump to promise they’d do something if elected to lower the cost of purchasing a property. But rising prices have also meant that millions of homeowners in the country have seen the value of their properties grow in the past few years—an appreciation that might push them to vote for Harris in November, according to a first-of-its-kind study. In “Housing Performance and the Electorate,” a study published in early 2023, researchers analyzed home prices and election results at a nationwide level over each of the last six presidential elections, seeking to find out how the country’s “largest asset…

ONE OF THE CHALLENGES OF AGING IS finding the right care from sources that you trust—you want to know that you or your loved ones are in good hands during a new phase of life. Nursing homes can provide crucial services for those who need general care or medical assistance in their day-to-day lives. In fact, there were an estimated 1.2 million nursing home residents across the country in 2023, according to global data research firm Statista. That number is expected to increase. To assist seniors and their loved ones in considering long-term care options, Newsweek and Statista are partnering for the fourth year to rank America’s Best Nursing Homes 2025. This year’s list recognizes 1,050 nursing homes across the 25 states with the highest number of facilities, according to…